2017 News

PRE-CONFERENCE EVENT:

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2017

We encourage attendees to attend the Special Exhibit on Cuba at the American Museum of Natural History (open until August 13). This exhibit can serve as a foundation to our conference’s discussion on Chinese in Cuba. We hope to get group discount and a special guided tour.

7:30 p.m. Flushing Town Hall screens the film "Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem" by Paula Williams Madison, followed by Q&A and her signing of her book (in English and Chinese translation). After retiring from NBCUniversal, Harlem-born Madison began actively to search for the Chinese side of her family from which the Jamaican side was separated for almost nine decades. She traveled to the Toronto Hakka Conference in 2012 and, with the help of attendees, found the threads that led her back to China to be reunited with her family of almost 150 generations. Her story is the subject of inquiry into the influence of West African conception of self-identity and spirituality on the formation of Afro/Caribbean Hakka identity. Get your tickets now, RSVP at Flushing Town Hall website.

Option: Those who already saw the film could leave early if they wish but we encourage you to see it again.

7:30 p.m. or 9:15 p.m. Attendees could have dinner in Flushing or return to Chinatown. Transportation option: Regularly scheduled mini vans ($3) from the Flushing Post Office to Confucius Plaza OR take MTA #7 train, then transfer to D train and exit at Grand Street Station in Chinatown, just a short walk to the conference hotel, Wyndham Plaza Chinatown, 93 Bowery St. NY, NY 10002.

Havana Chinatown: Old and New by Mitzi Espinosa Luis with photos from Jook Leung (20 min.); New York Chinatown photographic project presented by Corky Lee and Jook Leung(20 min.); Los Angeles by Dr. Gay Quai-Ming Yuen (20 min.); Peru and Hakka Chinese by Patricia Castro, PhD candidate in Chinese Anthropology at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru-Peking where she conducts fieldwork in Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong provinces(20 min.)

11:20 - 11:30 am -- Break:

Part Two:CHINESE ASSOCIATIONS, 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Mitzi Espinosa Luis of Min Chih Tang will show a short film on the Chinese in Cuba (20min.). Leaders from New York and Jamaica Family Associations will present their respective organizations (15 min.) Q/A: (10 min.)